Have You Written Your Will Today?
Chapter 53: You’re Now Playing with My Leftovers!

Chapter 53: Chapter 53: You’re Now Playing with My Leftovers!

Cui Rong’s eyes were bright red. Being young and stubborn, even though she didn’t fully understand the dangers they had just narrowly escaped, she clung onto Yicui: "I won’t leave!"

Her voice, hoarse and childlike, together with her chubby, delicate face, was exceedingly adorable.

Yicui then noticed the red marks on her wrist where she had been pinched. She squatted down to be at eye level with Cui Rong.

"Does it hurt?"

Cui Rong followed Yicui’s gaze.

The pain, belatedly realized, gradually registered in the young girl’s nerves.

She extended her finger, which just looked like a soft, doughy bun, now pointing imperiously at a middle-aged man.

"Who are you, to dare harm me?"

"I’ll have my second uncle kill you!"

She threatened word by word: "You! Are! Done!"

Shen Hua’s eyes seemed able to penetrate into people’s hearts.

This was her only concern.

If it was indeed a kidnapper, figuring that the little girl could fetch a good price, then so be it.

After all, the Shen Family was merely a merchant family, yet the inner house was full of scheming and plotting, not to mention the endless demons and ghosts within Shengjing. If this middle-aged man was taking money to work for someone...

Then it would involve the disgraceful matters of nobility. If one were to speculate bravely moreover, it perhaps might even be linked to factional struggles for the throne.

Whether right or wrong, using such schemes on a child is a despicable and contemptible tactic.

However, this was just her speculation.

The current Shen Hua, viewed everything from the worst possible angle.

She rarely was patient: "It’s ok if we don’t go to the government office, who is your second uncle? I’ll have someone send you back."

But Cui Rong looked at Shen Hua warily: "Why do you ask about my second uncle, do you also want to be my second aunt?"

Cui Rong tilted her head, her eyebrows knitting then relaxing.

"Someone like you, no way."

Putting aside her playful mood, she turned and walked back, her embroidered shoes echoing as she went. Her silhouette bore an imposing momentum.

Cui Rong: "She has become angry out of embarrassment."

"It can’t be helped, everyone wants to marry my second uncle, but my second uncle can’t marry everyone."

"Why don’t you join the queue?"

Shen Hua: ???

She had always been the one dismissing others; never had it been others picking and choosing over her.

Who knows where this so-called second uncle came from? Even if he was standing in front of her, she wouldn’t bother giving him a second glance.

She laughed in irritation. What an utterly unadorable little ghost.

Seeing this, Cheng Gui had no choice but to hold the man and leave, accompanied by a few proactive villagers going to testify.

"Miss Shen."

Approaching the alleyway, a woman in a dark-colored, dirt-resistant jacket called out to her gently. The woman had a slender figure and wore rouge on her lips.

With only a few households in the alley, even though the woman looked unfamiliar, Shen Hua quickly guessed her identity.

It was Sister-in-law Yan, who had been beaten not long ago.

If one looked closely, one could still see the bruising around her eyelids.

Shen Hua was about to respond when she suddenly paused, as if recalling an unpleasant memory.

She pursed her lips, gave a casual nod, and then headed toward the pear garden.

As a woman, she carried an air of delicacy and grace about her, as unreachable as clouds in the sky. Sister-in-law Yan retracted her gaze covetously and cautiously, fearing she might soil Shen Hua’s sight.

She bit her lip in frustration and walked back.

"She is of a noble background, even if fallen on hard times she lives in the pear garden, and nothing she wears is cheap; it’s pointless for you to look up to her, did she even bother with you?"

Yan Xiong mocked and derided.

"Everyone in the pear garden sent rice dumplings, only our house did not get any. Tell me, does she think you’re dirty?"

Sister-in-law Yan’s eyes reddened; not wanting to hear any more, she headed for the kitchen. But as she passed by Yan Xiong, he grabbed her wrist. The spot he touched was where the bloodstains had been left from being whipped with a willow branch, and she immediately turned pale with pain.

The man approached her and bit her on the lips: "Are you deaf when I speak to you? Be obedient, the boss has ordered me to punish you."

"I’ve already said, I couldn’t hold back from drinking, I definitely won’t drink again in the future. I also bought medicine today to apologize, don’t be mad at me anymore."

Not drinking again?

She had heard such words too many times and completely stopped believing them.

"I don’t know what I can say to you?"

Sister-in-law Yan struggled with hatred: "Stay away from me."

Yan Xiong suddenly turned his face sullen.

"Do you really think you’re a lady from a good family? I bought you from the brothel, you’ve served more men than I can count on one hand, I redeemed you from that pit of beasts and married you into this house, where have I wronged you?"

"Ask yourself, haven’t I treated you well enough?"

Sister-in-law Yan let out a stifled sob uncomfortably.

She was filled with the helplessness and profound sadness of the lowest stratum.

Yan Xiong was lean and dark-skinned, standing next to Sister-in-law Yan, they looked quite mismatched.

But Sister-in-law Yan once considered him her support for the latter part of her life.

With a hoarse voice, she said: "Which lady from a good family would willingly debase herself? With a cruel stepmother and a cowardly father, I never wished to enter such a filthy place. You redeemed and married me, I should be thankful. I lived like neither human nor ghost in the first half of my life, only to be reborn..."

She looked toward Yan Xiong, her voice trembling: "But why do you still humiliate and force me to serve your father?"

Yan Xiong sneered: "Who do you think you are, some virtuous and upright woman? You didn’t even consider dying when you were in the brothel."

"Why should I die?"

Sister-in-law Yan suddenly got agitated: "Being sold to the brothel wasn’t my fault! It’s not my fault for being unlucky!"

In that kind of place, even seeking death was difficult; they were closely watched even when relieving themselves. Disobedience meant a brutal beating, and the madam had countless ways to make their lives worse than death. Since she couldn’t die, she could only strive to live.

One year, two years... She endured through it all.

"Now, I just want to live openly and freely, is that okay?"

The response she got was from the man next to her who wouldn’t accept objections.

"No!"

And one more thing.

"Remember to go to father’s room tonight. Take the initiative, do not spoil his mood. Having been in that place, you should know plenty of tricks."

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Shen Hua was not walking fast, she even seemed to struggle a bit.

She picked up the handkerchief and wiped the sweat, showing no good expression to the little tail following her.

"Little ghost, go back to your own mansion."

Cui Rong lifted her little face high: "I don’t know the way. But my uncle will definitely come looking for me."

She had no desire to go to the streets again, feeling somewhat fearful after the ordeal. She could only lower her status: "I’ll come sit at your place as a guest."

Shen Hua sneered: "Not welcome."

Cui Rong: !!!

Cui Rong stamped her feet in anger.

"Who cares!" She turned and walked away briskly.

Yicui and Ningzhu looked at each other.

Cui Rong walked a few steps, deliberately slowed her pace, yet no one came to persuade or call out to her.

Cui Rong’s face reddened with anger. But shortly after, she ran back with her head high.

Having never been rejected, Cui Rong was angry as she looked at Shen Hua: "No! I don’t care, I’ll follow you, I will infuriate you to death."

Shen Hua: "..."

Heh!

She grabbed Cui Rong’s face, kneading it like dough and tugged outward.

"Little ghost, all you’re playing with are my leftovers!"

"You can follow me, but behave yourself, otherwise, sister really can’t hold back from hitting you. Did you hear that, you brat!"

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